Russell has been Williams’s leading driver since he joined the team in 2019, and has outqualified Latifi in every grand prix since the Canadian made his F1 racing debut at the start of the 2020 season. The British driver will leave Williams for Mercedes next year, leading to suggestions that the team will not be […]
Monaco has traditionally spread its race weekend over four days, holding the opening two practice sessions on Thursday before using Friday as a rest day for the F1 paddock. The tradition dated back to the race’s original scheduling on a bank holiday weekend, but was maintained to allow traffic to flow through the area and […]
The nine-time MotoGP race winner announced back in June that he would be quitting Yamaha a season into his current two-year deal with Yamaha as the relationship between both parties soured irreparably across the 2021 campaign. Vinales was later confirmed as an Aprilia rider for 2022, though his debut was pushed up to last week’s […]
Ferrari has a place at Haas that is currently used by Mick Schumacher, but the contract that guaranteed a slot at Alfa Romeo – used by Charles Leclerc in 2018 and subsequently by Antonio Giovinazzi – has been changed for 2022. While Alfa boss Fred Vasseur hasn’t ruled out keeping Giovinazzi, he is looking at […]
Wednesday’s running at Misano was notable for the first outings on a MotoGP bike for Raul Fernandez and Remy Gardner on the Tech3 KTMs they will race in 2022. The current Moto2 championship leaders and team-mates took over from Iker Lecuona and Danilo Petrucci at Tech3. Fernandez was 0.726 seconds quicker than Gardner in 22nd […]
Ferrari revealed over the summer break that it was planning to bring a “significant step” in the performance of its power unit by bringing evolutions for its power unit through the season half of the season. Under the regulations, teams are permitted to make one specification update per year on each of its power unit […]
F1 managing director Ross Brawn has said the series should wait for the third sample at Interlagos before forming a definitive view and making any modifications. Nevertheless, after the first try at the British Grand Prix he met with the drivers and canvassed their views on how it played out. It’s far from the first […]
As first reported by Autosport, KTM has taken the opportunity to give 2022 Tech3 riders Fernandez and Remy Gardner an early MotoGP debut on Wednesday at the Misano in-season test. Both riders have replaced the current Tech3 line-up of Lecuona and Danilo Petrucci, as they will do in 2022.Lecuona ended Tuesday’s test day at Misano […]
Liberty Media’s takeover of F1 from 2016 has already resulted in a change of attitude to fans – with grand prix racing opening up its social media channels and embracing concepts like the Netflix Drive to Survive series. But there have been differences in the way the series is run too, with Liberty trying out radical concepts like […]
Dovizioso will mark his MotoGP return this weekend in the San Marino Grand Prix at Misano having spent much of 2021 on the sidelines serving a sabbatical after losing his Ducati ride at the end of last year. Though initially carrying out a testing programme with Aprilia, Maverick Vinales’ sudden Yamaha exit and Franco Morbidelli’s […]